Well, I have been reading about all of the near misses of injures, on working on a stuck center board. I would like to add my own story. Setting the scene: I had a stuck center board hanging down out of the slot about about 1/2 inch. The clearance to the carpeted bunk was about 1 inch. I live in a duplex alone with no tenets at the time on the other side. No cell phone in my pocket or a mega phone for that matter. So ... I begin. In my basement garage in the dead of night I wiggled my way past the trailer tire to get at the stuck center board. I was able to get the center board free with a just a few pulls. But I wasn't fast enough to get my left hand pointer finger out of the way before it dropped and trapped it on the carpeted bunk. It didn't hurt too bad but I couldn't move it. No problem I thought. It's only 40 pounds but the entire 40 was on a 1/2 inch square area or less. That is 80 Pounds Per Square Inch or more! As I tried to pull my finger out it felt like the flesh was going to be pulled from the bone. Oh dear! I looked around my garage/shop and there were no tools of any kind within reaching distance, nothing! I laughted at the obsurdity of the whole situation but I didn't want to lay there for 3 days until my girl friend came over and found me there. I finally was able to use my right hand, with all my might, to lift the center board to free that left finger. I still feel lucky that it turned out okay! Peter Peanut M15 618
Hi all, I just lifted my M-15 in the garage (mine is a mess unlike those nice photos you see on the site), and did a bunch of stuff including replacing all the rusted hardware on the trailer. Which left me with the neked trailer itself. Now I have the boat back on the trailer but with the new hardware so that I kinda lost the settings for the bunks and roller heights. The keel is now on the two forward rollers but the rear roller is not set for any particular height and I do not know how much weight the bunks should be carrying. Could anyone give me some rules of thumb for setting the trailer back up? Some of the bunch of stuff was dropping the board, doing a little filling and epoxy paint repair and replacing the line (pendant?) that pulls it up and down. The advice to pull out the core from a 3/8" line and knot it in the board slot was fabulous! This really works but I would have never figure out that was the way to do it. I also benefited from the step by step of finding the pin, hammering out the pin and getting it all back together. I also filled the keel to center board liner gap. Just after I posted a question about why I had this quarter inch gap where I felt none should be, Sean posted his repair on Dauntless showing the same thing! So cool. Not only did that show me what it was (and gave it a name) he showed step by step how to repair it AND had a seperate posting showing how to work with the epoxy. This made things too easy. Thank you Sean! This was the first I worked on the boat (or really any boat) and I just wanted to thank everyone that has contributed. It was a just a huge help! And yes I will throw some $ at the MSOG site since the epoxy was $70.00, the trailer parts $200.00 and the web sites, priceless. Robbin '81 M-15 w/o name
Robin- Seems to a wide variety of opinions on this, but a good rule of thumb on the trailer is to have about half the weight on the keel and the rest on the hull. You want just enuf weight on the hull so the boat won't rock around, but an important thing to watch is that the hull isn't deflected. Make surethat the CB isn't jambed up in the trunk by the trailer; make sure it has clearance. Jerry jerrymontgomery.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robbin Roddewig" <robbin.roddewig@verizon.net> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 5:37 PM Subject: M_Boats: Trailer question and misc.
Hi all, I just lifted my M-15 in the garage (mine is a mess unlike those nice photos you see on the site), and did a bunch of stuff including replacing all the rusted hardware on the trailer. Which left me with the neked trailer itself. Now I have the boat back on the trailer but with the new hardware so that I kinda lost the settings for the bunks and roller heights. The keel is now on the two forward rollers but the rear roller is not set for any particular height and I do not know how much weight the bunks should be carrying. Could anyone give me some rules of thumb for setting the trailer back up? Some of the bunch of stuff was dropping the board, doing a little filling and epoxy paint repair and replacing the line (pendant?) that pulls it up and down. The advice to pull out the core from a 3/8" line and knot it in the board slot was fabulous! This really works but I would have never figure out that was the way to do it. I also benefited from the step by step of finding the pin, hammering out the pin and getting it all back together. I also filled the keel to center board liner gap. Just after I posted a question about why I had this quarter inch gap where I felt none should be, Sean posted his repair on Dauntless showing the same thing! So cool. Not only did that show me what it was (and gave it a name) he showed step by step how to repair it AND had a seperate posting showing how to work with the epoxy. This made things too easy. Thank you Sean! This was the first I worked on the boat (or really any boat) and I just wanted to thank everyone that has contributed. It was a just a huge help! And yes I will throw some $ at the MSOG site since the epoxy was $70.00, the trailer parts $200.00 and the web sites, priceless.
Robbin '81 M-15 w/o name
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